STAND. COM. REP. NO.  697-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2617

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2617 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PENALTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a penalty for persons who violate the motor vehicle bumper height requirements established under section 291-35.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending section 291-35.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to prohibit a person from operating a motor vehicle upon a public roadway with a bumper height in excess of the maximum bumper height requirements;

     (2)  Adding a savings clause; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2617, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2617, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair